Image Processing Apparatus and Image Processing Method for Suppressing an Increase in Processing Time of a Filter Process for Point Cloud Data

1. An image processing apparatus comprising: circuitry configured to perform a filter process on point cloud data using a representative value of the point cloud data for each local region obtained by dividing a three-dimensional space; encode a two-dimensional plane image on which the point cloud data subjected to the filter process is projected; generate a bitstream including information regarding the local region that includes information regarding a size or a size and a shape of the local region; determine whether a current position in an occupancy map of the point cloud data is located at an end of a patch in the occupancy map; set, on a basis of determination that the current position is located at the end of the patch, a processing range of the filter process to the current position; and exclude, on a basis of determination that the current position is not located at the end of the patch, the current position from the filter process.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the local region includes a cube region having a predetermined size.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the local region includes a rectangular parallelepiped region having a predetermined size.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the local region includes a region obtained by dividing the three-dimensional space such that each of the regions contains a predetermined number of points of the point cloud data.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information regarding the local region includes information regarding a shape of the local region.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the representative value includes an average of the point cloud data contained in the local region.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the representative value includes a median of the point cloud data contained in the local region.

8. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the filter process includes a smooth process that smooths data of a processing target point in the point cloud data using the representative value of the local region around the processing target point.

9. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to perform the filter process on position information on a point of the point cloud data.

10. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to perform the filter process on attribute information on a point of the point cloud data.

11. An image processing method comprising: performing a filter process on point cloud data using a representative value of the point cloud data for each local region obtained by dividing a three-dimensional space; encoding a two-dimensional plane image on which the point cloud data subjected to the filter process is projected, and generating a bitstream including information regarding the local region that includes information regarding a size or a size and a shape of the local region; determining whether a current position in an occupancy map of the point cloud data is located at an end of a patch in the occupancy map; setting, on a basis of determination that the current position is located at the end of the patch, a processing range of the filter process to the current position; and excluding, on a basis of determination that the current position is not located at the end of the patch, the current position from the filter process.

12. An image processing apparatus comprising: circuitry configured to a decode a bitstream; generate coded data of a two-dimensional plane image on which point cloud data is projected; perform a filter process on the point cloud data restored from the two-dimensional plane image, using a representative value of the point cloud data for each local region obtained by dividing a three-dimensional space, wherein the bitstream includes information regarding the local region that includes information regarding a size or a size and a shape of the local region; determine whether a current position in an occupancy map of the point cloud data is located at an end of a patch in the occupancy map; set, on a basis of determination that the current position is located at the end of the patch, a processing range of the filter process to the current position; and exclude, on a basis of determination that the current position is not located at the end of the patch, the current position from the filter process.

13. The image processing method according to claim 11, wherein the local region includes a cube region having a predetermined size.

14. The image processing method according to claim 11, wherein the local region includes a rectangular parallelepiped region having a predetermined size.

15. The image processing apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the local region includes a cube region having a predetermined size.

16. The image processing apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the local region includes a rectangular parallelepiped region having a predetermined size.